A greeting card company or companies will offers different styles and designs. Things like funny or humorous cards, romantic ones or musical ones just to name a few. Most will be on paper but there are some that are not but, they all will create a nice little moment.
The thing about greeting cards is that it’s a nice gesture. Plus they can also be a quick fix if your doing things at the last minute or just plain forgot about a certain occasion. Like a lazy guy who buys them for his girlfriend because it’s the easy thing to do. The opposite is also true you may have a real ladies man who want’s to surprise his lovely lady.
Let me talk about birthday cards because everyday someone celebrates a birthday. If it’s your birthday receiving a card is almost a given. Don’t you remember tearing open the envelope hoping to find money inside the card? How about giving your parents or grandparents a card, it’s just a nice way to say happy birthday and about as traditional as a birthday cake.
Now when the holidays come around holiday greeting cards are flying around everywhere. Friends and relatives out of town or local will purchase many greeting cards to send out to their loved ones. It’s a convenient way to say I love you I miss you and that you are on our minds and in our hearts.
Below is a list of holidays I found on Wikipedia. Some I’m very familiar with and others not so much. While I might not have heard of them all, many others probably have. A greeting card is fitting for just about every occasion mention on the list below.
List of holidays
- 1 January - New Year's Day
- 18 January - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- 2 February - Groundhog Day
- 7 February - Super Bowl Sunday
- 14 February - Valentine's Day
- 15 February - Presidents Day
- 17 February - Ash Wednesday
- 17 March - St. Patrick's Day
- 20 March - Vernal Equinox
- 28 March - Palm Sunday
- 29 March - First day of Passover
- 30 March - National Doctors' Day
- 1 April - April Fools' Day
- 2 April - Good Friday
- 4 April - Easter Sunday
- 5 April - Easter Monday
- 6 April - Last Day of Passover
- 19 April - Patriot's Day/Marathon Monday
- 22 April - Earth Day
- 30 April - Arbor Day
- 5 May - Cinco De Mayo
- 9 May - Mother's Day
- 23 May - Pentecost Sunday
- 31 May - Memorial Day
- 14 June - Flag Day
- 20 June - Father's Day
- 21 June - Summer Solstice
- 4 July - Independence Day
- 12 August - First day of Ramadan
- 6 September - Labor Day
- 8 September - Rosh Hashanah
- 10 September - Last day of Ramadan
- 11 September - Eid-al-Fitr/Day
- 17 September - Constitution Day
- 17 September - Yom Kippur
- 22 September - First day of Sukkot
- 23 September - Autumnal equinox
- 29 September - Last Day of Sukkot
- 30 September - Simchat Torah
- 9 October - Leif Erikson Day
- 11 October - Columbus Day
- 30 October - Mischief Night
- 31 October - Halloween
- 1 November - All Saints Day
- 11 November - Veterans Day
- 25 November - Thanksgiving
- 26 November - Black Friday
- 1 December - First day of Hanukkah
- 7 December - Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
- 9 December - Last day of Hanukkah
- 21 December - Winter Solstice
- 24 December - Christmas Eve
- 25 December - Christmas Day
- 26 December - First day of Kwanzaa
- 31 December - New Year's Eve
Holidays can mean different things to different people and a greeting card can say things that people may not be able to necessarily say themselves. No matter what the card says it’s the fact that someone is thinking about you and cares about what’s going on in you life wishing you the best in all you endeavors.
They can bring a nice laugh to a person or crowd and who doesn’t like a good laugh and kind words. It‘s for those reason that wholesale greeting cards won‘t go out of style and will keep moving off the shelves all year round. While one day may seem mundane to many of us it can be the birth of someone’s great grandchild.
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